Sneak Peek: Sledding Critters, Surfing Santa & Hedgey Holidays

Hello and welcome to day 6 of our Fall & Winter Peek Week!  All this week I've been showcasing cards using our newest collection which is now shipping! But before you head off to shop, make sure to see the last of our sneak peeks, enter today's giveaway and scroll down to read about our special sale going on! 

Today's final sneak peeks include a new 3x4 holiday stamp set called Sledding Critters and two new mini 2x3 stamps sets called Surfing Santa and Hedgey Holidays. Let's jump right in!

Card No. 1:  Up first is a card using our new Sledding Critters Stamps which is a winter version of our Cruising Critters Stamps. Two years ago my family and I took an early morning flight to JFK on Christmas morning to visit New York City and experience the city during the holidays which has been a lifelong dream. Turns out Manhattan is crazy busy that week as more and more visitors pour in leading up to New Year's eve, but we still had a fabulous time making memories that will last us a lifetime. My daughters got to go ice skating in Central Park so this card is my version of sledding in Central Park with the beautiful city in the background.  

To set my scene I cut my city buildings using our Cityscape Border dies. For my snow hills, I used out Slimline Nature Border dies and added three trees from our Christmas Home Stamps. The Sledding Critter Dies come with two bonus word dies so I used the "sledding" word together with the stamped sentiment from the set, stretching and carefully cutting apart the word "sleddding" (although if you don't like to clip apart your stamps, you could also mask it off). 

Card No. 2: For my second card I used our new Winter Scenes Stamps and Dies for my cabin and snowy trees backdrop, coloring them in neutral colors to keep the focus on the cute little critters. The Sledding Critters Stamps come with 3 delicate miniature snowflakes which I heat embossed in my sky which had been inked up with tumbled glass distress ink. My sentiment was created using the second bonus word that comes with the Sledding Critters dies, together with the sentiment from the stamp set. To create the look of chipboard, I die-cut the word "snow" four times and adhered them together with a liquid glue pen.

Card No. 3: My next set is dedicated to all our warm climate friends (or those who like to celebrate the holidays from a tropical locale). Our mini Surfing Santa 2x3 Stamps include Santa in his swim trunks, a separate surf board, a mini palm tree tree and the "Warm Christmas Wishes" sentiment, as well as a number of water splashes.

I took inspiration from Candice's card shared HERE and how having the three ice cream trucks moving across the card created a sense of movement so I thought I would try her technique here for my little Santa riding the waves. For my waves and stitched clouds I used the Slimline Nature Border dies. I stamped my sentiment onto the stitched scalloped circle from our Window Quad Circle dies. It felt like it was floating though so to ground it to my card, I cut a strip of our new Classic Sunburst Paper which I impressed with a stitched edge using the Slimline Border Dies.

Card No. 4: I wanted to create a Christmas card with an island vibe so I pulled out our Tropical Scenes Stamps and Sending Sunshine Stamps for my islands and palm trees. For the smaller palm trees in the background, I used the small solid tree that comes with the Surfing Santa Stamps, using my Misti so that I could double stamp them first with green for the palm branches and brown for the trunk. I also tried my best to wipe off any spots on the stamp with a damp cloth that got the wrong color before making my impression. 

My sky was inked up using tumbled glass distress ink and then the horizon was masked off and I inked the bottom half of my panel with peacock feathers distress ink. I stamped waves using the supporting images in our Tropical Scenes stamps and then cut off the bottom portion of my card to allow me the space to have a little sliver of our Sleek Stripes Paper show through. I thought if I were Santa I would want a pair of polka-dot swim trunks so I add some dots with my white Sharpie extra fine paint pen. Lastly I stamped my a sentiment from our Heartfelt Wishes Stamps onto a piece of black cardstock with clear VersaMark ink and then heat embossed it with white embossing powder.

Card No. 5: Featuring Hedgey Holiday Stamps & Dies (blogged HERE) by Mendi Yoshikawa

 

Card No. 6: Featuring Hedgey Holiday Stamps & Dies (blogged HERE) by Anja Bytyqi

Card No. 7: Featuring Hedgey Holiday Stamps & Dies (blogged HERE) by Leanne West

Card & Tag No. 8: Featuring Hedgey Holiday Stamps & Dies (blogged HERE) by Ana Anderson

Card No.9: Featuring Hedgey Holiday Stamps (blogged HERE) by Angelica Conrad

Card No. 10: Featuring Hedgey Holiday Stamps & Dies (blogged HERE) by Franci Vignoli

Card No. 11: Featuring Hedgey Holiday Stamps & Dies (blogged HERE) by Juliana Michaels

Card No. 12: Featuring Hedgey Holiday Stamps (blogged HERE) by Vanessa Menhorn

Tag Set: Featuring Hedgey Holiday Stamps & Dies (blogged HERE) by Rachel Alvarado



Before I go, here's a look at this season's free mini die that will automatically come with all orders while supplies last. This is a smaller version of the small poinsettias found in our new Window Quad Circle Dies.

Did you miss our past mini dies? We now have our last 6 mini dies available for purchase in one conveniently packaged set that is exclusive to our web store and value priced for $4.99 which can now be found HERE (you can find all our past mini dies HERE).

That wraps up the last of our new products. Thanks for hanging out with me all this week and for your sweet support. All your comments and answers to my questions each day have been amazing and I love getting to know you all better. 

Tomorrow we are officially celebrating our company's 5th birthday with a big blog hop full of more prizes and inspiration, but we're kicking on the celebration now with a special sale which is good for 20% off all Sunny Studio branded products in our store (excluding newly released and retired products) using the promo code FIVEYEARS that will run through Wednesday, September 26th.  

Or if you're only in the market for our newest items you can use the promo code FREESHIP to receive free shipping on all USA orders over $25.  

Unfortunately only one discount code can be used per order so please choose the code with the biggest savings for you. ❤️

I'd love to give a $25 gift code to one lucky winner using the rafflecopter below.  Make sure to keep checking back all this week for more peeks & prizes. The contests run through Wednesday, August 26th at Midnight PST with winners announced here on Sunday, August 30th. :)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Here's a closer look at the new Sledding Critters 3x4 stamps & coordinating dies, Surfing Santa 2x3 stamps & coordinating dies and the Hedgey Holidays 2x3 stamps & coordinating dies available for purchase starting today.  :)

  

  

  

Other Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Fancy Frames-Square Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Window Trio- Square Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Happy Word Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Woodland Borders Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Build-A-Tag #2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Staggered Circles Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sending Sunshine Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Sending Sunshine Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cityscape Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Very Merry 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Woodgrain Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio
Season's Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Season's Greetings Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Layered Snowflake Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Garland Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio
Tropical Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Basic Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio
Winter Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Classic Sunburst Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Peppermint Confetti Shop at: Sunny Studio
Holiday Cheer 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio

Sneak Peek: Holy Night, Inside Greetings & Victorian Christmas

Hello and welcome to day 5 of our Fall & Winter Peek Week!  All this week I am showcasing cards using our newest collection which will be available to purchase tomorrow morning. 

Today's sneak peeks include a new 4x6 Nativity stamp set, two 4x6 Sentiment Stamp sets for the inside greetings on your holiday cards, a second new 6x6 paper pack and a mini 2x3 holiday house stamp to compliment our previoulsy released Christmas Home Stamps.  Are you ready? Let's get started!

Card No. 1:  My first card uses our new Holy Night Stamps. This is a set I have wanted to create for the previous two Christmas seasons, but I was always too nervous I wouldn't be able to bring it to life the way I envisioned. I wanted to have a set that included some cute animals welcoming the birth of Jesus just like my favorite children's Christmas book The Crippled Lamb by Max Lucado. I'm happy I was finally able to overcome my fear though because I had so much fun using it to create today's Christmas cards.

I started by inking up a white cardstock panel with Salty Ocean, Blueprint Sketch, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot distress inks, working darker towards the outer edges. This set comes with a number of different sized shining stars so I started by heat embossing the largest one near the center just over where I planned to position the baby Jesus and added the smaller ones throughout my sky, adding small white dots between them with my white sharpie extra fine point paint pen.

For my ground I die-cut a piece of brown cardstock with a sloped die from the Slimline Nature Border dies and inked up the bottom half with some vintage photo distress ink. After it had dried I heat embossed a sentiment from the set using clear VersaMark ink with white embossing powder. I decided to fussy cut my images which I had colored with Copic markers, but I saved myself some trouble with cutting out the rafters on the stable and just cut the outside edge. For the inside portion I colored it with a coordinating Copic marker and no one would ever be the wiser.  ;)

Card No. 2:  Up next is a slimline card that gave me the extra room I needed to include the three wise men from the Holy Night Stamps. I inked up my paper with the same colors that I used on my first card, but this time I spritzed it with water and flicked on some watered down white paint. I then die-cut the panel when it was dry with our new Slimline Scalloped Frame dies and cut a second portion out using black cardstock to form my ground. This time I only used the simple large star from the set and heat embossed my sentiment using our new Inside Greetings Christmas Stamps.

Card No. 3: This card makes use of our new Classic Sunburst paper which features the sunray print in all your favorite bright colors (previously we only had this style available in our pastel version) and it includes a nice diagonal grid print on the reverse side that is identical to the versatile grid print found in our Very Merry Paper pack. I elected to come out with two basic paper packs that can be used all year long over a traditional Christmas paper set this year since our small business is starting to outgrow our limited storage space and I need to be more selective about which new papers I add. I'm so happy to have these 4 basic new prints though that can be enjoy throughout the year!

I kept the rest of my card really simple, heat embossing my "O Holy Night" Sentiment from the Holy Night set near the center in white embossing powder and using the Slimline Basic Border dies to add stitching to my cardstock strip and a simple white scalloped edge.

Card No. 4: For my last Holy Night card I pulled out our Window Trio Square dies to create the three stitched windows in the center of my white cardstock panel and then added stitching along the edges of that same panel with ric-rac trim using our Slimline Basic Border dies.  I used our Gingham Jewel Tones Paper peeking out from behind the windows and then embossed a piece of navy cardstock using our Dapper Diamond Embossing folder.  

Card No. 5: Switching gears I have some cards featuring our new Victorian Christmas 2x3 Stamps. My first card lets the house in this set take center stage, using our Stitched Semi-Circle Dies to create a snowglobe and base. For my base, I cut it out using our Amazing Argyle Paper pack and trimmed off part of my circle with my paper trimmer, adding a stitched edge to match the other stitching with out Slimline Basic Border dies. For my label, I stamped the Season's Greetings phrase from the stamp set onto a cutout using our Stitched Oval Dies.  I mounted my completed snow globe onto a piece of red Classic Sunburst Paper.

Card No. 6:  For this card I wanted to recreate the look of San Francisco's Alamo Square (inspired by this photo here) at Christmas time. Then of course my husband had to point out to me that it doesn't snow in San Francisco and while I thought that it probably didn't do it often, "never" seemed pretty unlikely. Well, it seems we were both right. According to google snow has fallen and stuck on the ground 11 times since the gold rush so let's just pretend it was one of those years or as my daughters threw me a bone and told me maybe it could pass for a few other cities across America.  LOL!

I started by inking up my background with spun sugar, faded lilac, salty ocean and blueprint sketch distress inks.  For my scene I paired the Victorian Christmas house with the house and bare trees from our Christmas Home stamps and then die-cut my city backdrop using our Cityscape Border dies.

Card No. 7: My next card uses all three houses from the Victorian Christmas and Christmas Home Stamps for a beautiful snowy scene. To set my scene, I inked up my background with spun sugar, faded lilac & tumbled glass distress ink and then heat embossed two sets of the fir tree borders from our Here Comes Santa stamps using Versamark ink and white embossing powder. My embossing powder was looking a bit cream in color next to my white snowy ground though so I decided to add some Stardust stickles over the top of the embossing to help it blend better and it turned out to be a happy solution. I really love the sparkle it adds to my card. I then added some snowflakes to my sky using a white Sharpie extra fine paint pen.

For my sentiment I used the "Merry Christmas" greeting from our Merry Sentiments stamps and then the "from our house to yours" from the Christmas Home set. The little snowman and lamp posts from the same Christmas Home set completed my scene. I love having a third house to go with this set so I can create a full neighborhood with three unique homes!

Card No.8: For my last card of the day, I have a card featuring our new Inside Greetings Christmas stamps. I had created this small scene a couple years ago with our Christmas Chapel Stamps, Christmas Home Stamps and Sunny Semi-Circle Dies, but then just set it aside because life got busy and I wasn't quit sure how to fill the space above the church where I felt there was a bit of a gap.

Well this beautiful greeting came to my rescue, as did the tiny snowflakes from our Sledding Critters Stamps (being shared tomorrow) and the tiny circle flakes from our Winter Scenes Stamps.  I then mounted my little scene onto a piece of our brand new Classic Sunburst Paper in green to pick up the colors of the trees and wreaths.

That wraps up today's sneak peeks. I'm so happy to have you hang out with me today. I read all your comments and they mean so much!  I'd love to give a $25 gift code to one lucky winner using the rafflecopter below.  Make sure to keep checking back all this week for more peeks & prizes. The contests run through Wednesday, August 26th at Midnight PST with winners announced here on Sunday, August 30th. :)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Here's a closer look at the new Holy Night 4x6 stamps & coordinating dies, Victorian Christmas 2x3 stamps & coordinating dies, Inside Greetings Christmas stamps and Inside Greetings Holiday stamps and new Classic Sunburst 6x6 Paper featured today.

  

 

  

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Merry Sentiments Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sunny Semi Circles Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio
Christmas Chapel Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Chapel Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Home Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Home Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Window Trio- Square Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gingham Jewel Tones 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Amazing Argyle 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dapper Diamonds Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio
Here Comes Santa Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Oval Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cityscape Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Semi-Circle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Slimline Basic Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Scalloped Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scaredy Cat Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Classic Sunburst Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio